Akiko Ohku

Directing

Biography

Akiko Ōku (大九明子, Ōku Akiko, born October 8, 1968), also romanised as Akiko Ohku, is a Japanese film director. Ōku was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa. In high school, she joined a rakugo group. While studying Politics and Economics at Meiji University, she was part of a student theatre troupe. After graduating, Ōku briefly had an office job at a subsidiary of the Ministry of Labour. She then entered a comedy acting school for one year and performed as stand-up comedian, and afterwards, at age 27, she entered Eigabi School, a film school where director Kiyoshi Kurosawa taught, among others. While still at film school, Ōku won a screenwriting contest with a script that would become her theatrical feature film debut as director, 意外と死なない (Igaito shinanai, literally "don't die unexpectedly"). Description above from the Wikipedia article Akiko Ōku, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography Movies

Acting

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Barren Illusion

5.7(0.0K)

In a near future where allergies have become an epidemic, music producer Haru half-heartedly dates post office clerk and mail thief Michi. He searches for violent ways to reactivate his life, she dreams of escaping abroad; both volunteer to test a new drug which may provide a cure.

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Barren Illusion

Akiko

Igai to shinanaiMOVIE

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Igai to shinanai

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Tsukiko is an elementary school teacher bitter about her students, parents, colleagues, and her best friend who enjoys a shotgun marriage. Tsukiko has only one path left to take.

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Igai to shinanai

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Deka Matsuri

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12-part omnibus made under the rules: "the main character is a detective" "at least one gag per minute" "the length must not exceed 10 minutes"

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Deka Matsuri

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Not To Talk About All Of Her Old Age

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Aoyama Shinji’s Film History—and simultaneously a chronicle of modern Japanese history—layers together images of present-day landscapes, newsreels, and photographs of Emperor Shōwa as well as of Kōtoku Shūsui and Sugako Kanno, who were executed in the High Treason Incident, with readings of texts by Nakano Shigeharu (Five-Shao of Sake, Shinagawa Station in the Rain) and Natsume Sōseki (Recollections).

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Herself

Production

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Tokyo Serendipity

5.9(0.0K)

Yui, a college student, moves in to her first own apartment, where she begins her new independent life in a big city. Soon after, the upstairs neighbor Takashi sparks her interest.

Tokyo Serendipity

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Yui, a college student, moves in to her first own apartment, where she begins her new independent life in a big city. Soon after, the upstairs neighbor Takashi sparks her interest.

Tokyo Serendipity

5.9(0.0K)

Yui, a college student, moves in to her first own apartment, where she begins her new independent life in a big city. Soon after, the upstairs neighbor Takashi sparks her interest.

Nagisa no koibito tachi

Director

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Nagisa no koibito tachi

Screenplay

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Wedding High

6.3(0.0K)

What's the biggest event for a couple? A wedding! The goofy but earnest Akito Ishikawa and the always cheerful Haruka Nitta are about to tie the knot. Thanks to the help of their wedding planner Nakagoshi, they've finally made it to the day of the wedding.

Fantastic Girls

5.8(0.0K)

In 1980, Ayuko is a new transfer student in Okayama from Tokyo. She doesn't have any friends and relies on her boyfriend Hideo who is a college student. Ayuko likes to draw a romance manga of herself and her boyfriend. Ayuko's classmate, Takemi, becomes a huge fan of Ayuko's manga and they become close friends. Due to an incident though, they drift apart. 30 years later, Ayuko is now a manga artist and comes back to Okayama to give a lecture at her former high school. There, Ayuko meets Takemi who is now a teacher.

Igai to shinanaiMOVIE

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Igai to shinanai

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Tsukiko is an elementary school teacher bitter about her students, parents, colleagues, and her best friend who enjoys a shotgun marriage. Tsukiko has only one path left to take.

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Igai to shinanai

Writer

Igai to shinanaiMOVIE

MOVIE

Igai to shinanai

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Tsukiko is an elementary school teacher bitter about her students, parents, colleagues, and her best friend who enjoys a shotgun marriage. Tsukiko has only one path left to take.

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Igai to shinanai

Director